LEADER 04511nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910974465103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613589668 010 $a9781280494437 010 $a1280494433 010 $a9781400841608 010 $a1400841607 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400841608 035 $a(CKB)2670000000161775 035 $a(EBL)878306 035 $a(OCoLC)782923570 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623589 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11348873 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623589 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656215 035 $a(PQKB)10278244 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC878306 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37020 035 $a(DE-B1597)447587 035 $a(OCoLC)979755091 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400841608 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL878306 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546021 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358966 035 $a(PPN)187958998 035 $a(Perlego)735443 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88833467 035 $a(FRCYB88833467)88833467 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000161775 100 $a20120106d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe war of the sexes $ehow conflict and cooperation have shaped men and women from prehistory to the present /$fPaul Seabright 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780691159720 311 08$a0691159726 311 08$a9780691133010 311 08$a0691133018 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart I. Prehistory -- $t1. Introduction -- $t2. Sex ans Salesmanship -- $t3. Seduction and the Emotions -- $t4. Social Primates -- $tPart II. Today -- $t5. Testing for Talent -- $t6. What Do Women Want? -- $t7. Coalitions of the Willing -- $t8. The Scarcity of Charm -- $t9. The Tender War -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things. The result? Seemingly inevitable conflict. Yet we belong to the most cooperative species on the planet. Isn't there a way we can use this capacity to achieve greater harmony and equality between the sexes? In The War of the Sexes, Paul Seabright argues that there is--but first we must understand how the tension between conflict and cooperation developed in our remote evolutionary past, how it shaped the modern world, and how it still holds us back, both at home and at work. Drawing on biology, sociology, anthropology, and economics, Seabright shows that conflict between the sexes is, paradoxically, the product of cooperation. The evolutionary niche--the long dependent childhood--carved out by our ancestors requires the highest level of cooperative talent. But it also gives couples more to fight about. Men and women became experts at influencing one another to achieve their cooperative ends, but also became trapped in strategies of manipulation and deception in pursuit of sex and partnership. In early societies, economic conditions moved the balance of power in favor of men, as they cornered scarce resources for use in the sexual bargain. Today, conditions have changed beyond recognition, yet inequalities between men and women persist, as the brains, talents, and preferences we inherited from our ancestors struggle to deal with the unpredictable forces unleashed by the modern information economy. Men and women today have an unprecedented opportunity to achieve equal power and respect. But we need to understand the mixed inheritance of conflict and cooperation left to us by our primate ancestors if we are finally to escape their legacy. 606 $aSex (Psychology) 606 $aSex differences (Psychology) 606 $aInterpersonal relations 606 $aMen$xPsychology 606 $aWomen$xPsychology 615 0$aSex (Psychology) 615 0$aSex differences (Psychology) 615 0$aInterpersonal relations. 615 0$aMen$xPsychology. 615 0$aWomen$xPsychology. 676 $a306.709 700 $aSeabright$b Paul$0119600 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974465103321 996 $aThe war of the sexes$94340292 997 $aUNINA